John Klossner's Ink Tank

A reader opened a new front (or more accurately, re-opened an old one) in the ever-present war between the public and private sectors by commenter questioning the amount of hours feds really put in. It seems that both sides of the debate put in job-related overtime. Whether it is productive is another question,

The Partnership for Public Service recently conducted a survey that found that the majority of feds do not believe that agencies support their efforts to develop innovative solutions. Readers responded that it's not that agencies don't support innovation -- it’s that they don’t even like innovation. Is this a surprise?

Former Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, writing an op-ed for the New York Times, described what he dubbed a federal contractor "cartel." Needless to say, this did not go over well with the federal IT community. Maybe some other organizations should be brought to Mr. Kundra's attentions.